[News Briefing] KCC moving to kick out ActiveX 

Posted on : 2012-01-18 10:25 KST Modified on : 2019-10-19 20:29 KST

The government is taking active steps to eliminate the ActiveX framework, which has become synonymous with distortions in the South Korean online environment.
The Korea Communications Commission announced Tuesday that it plans to investigate and report on the use of ActiveX at 100 major internet sites in an effort to promote online convenience and web service competitiveness. The plan is for quarterly investigations and reports, beginning with an initial report in March of this year, with the number of sites under examination to be expanded from the first 100 to include all 285 public institution web sites.
ActiveX is a framework used for opening files and playing music and videos that only operates with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. It has been widely used in South Korean web sites because of its ease of development, but does not work in other browsers because it does not follow the standard. Its weak security has also led to its use in distributed denial of service attacks. ActiveX does not operate at all on smartphones and other mobile devices.

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